The Eskimos are a strange people. First they get upset if you call them so. Seriously. It’s a term that derives from a dialect indigenous to North America and means “manufacturer of snowshoes”. I got angry. As if an inhabitant of Varese was called “shoe manufacturer” in fact is not nice.
I wonder if the Eskimos get nervous just looking at the restaurant created by Takeshi Hosaka study. Initially, maybe not. And they like an igloo. But it is at the foot of Mount Fuji, Japan. The place is called “Hoto Fudo” (which sounds a bit as “hot food”, ironically).
The structure works like a huge shell: soft lines with 140 square meters used for cooking and eating under 530 for the part that serves as an igloo porch. The peculiarity is that the place has air conditioning, then the customers, apart from rain, must adapt to weather conditions.
Even the lighting is calibrated to support the view of different time of day filtering through openings on the structure and bent panels slide in place of doors. The tables are all identical, wood and black metal with the addition of a central counter. Below is a gallery Hot Fudo.